Cooky press



F. c. WERNER.

Juy 3, 1934.,

COOKY PRESS Filed Jan. l1, 1932 ijatenteol Juif;

SES PATENT OFFCE COOKY PRESS 'Frank Charles Werner, Grand Rapids, Mich. Application `llanuary 1l, 1932, Serial No. 585,838

1 Claim.

This invention relates to cooky presses, and is particularly concerned with a novel construction whereby dough in easily shaped and a mass formed may be being accomplished. very rapidly The invention is concerne constructions and with machines of this character,

positively assuring novel means for dough, shaped and may be eiiectively sions in a roller, and in the roller and from the the roller to effect such against the dough provided in a very An understanding oi had from the following` nection with the which,

Fig. 1 is a vertic improvements may CS qLiCkly and into cocky forms and inserted in an waste of dough, this and efficiently.

d with many novel in ccrnnection including a that the pressed into the desired form, removed from dies or depres=l all cases separated from bands which pass around separation, insurance sticking to said bands being simple and practical manner.

the invention may be description, taken in conaccornpanying drawing, Iin

sential parts of the machine, and

Fig. 2 is an elevation p at the machine from the tain parts omitted al section illustrating the esartly in section looking left of Fig. 1, with certo make a better disclosure.

the two figures of the drawing.

1n the constructi open at its upper side, is use the dough, indicated at 2,

downwardly which come above shape for different cookies. and in its rotation,

The roller 3 engaging against on of to like parts in the -nachine a hopper 1, d in which to deposit the hopper having inclined sides, the lower edges oi the upper sides of two rollers 3 which is a die roller having h the dough is pressed. The be of any desired form and shapes and configurations of carries the same between itself an 4 which rotates dependent upon ried by one of the in Fig. 1.

The die roller in the opposite s coated at its outer side with h 5 the thickness of which is is longitudinally grooved the dough 2, d the die roller direction; and

a gauge 6 carsides oi the hopper, as shown 4 carries a large number of die depressions 7 which, as previously indicated, mayl be of any preferred form or of several different forms. Around the roller apart continuous grooves across the die depressions A plurality of endless the roller. bands 9 set in sai 7 also 4 a plurality of spaced 8 are made which cut made around metal belts or d grooves passing around the roller and also around roller 10 as shown in Fig. 1.

Between the rollers 4 and 10 a roller 11 of relatively small diameter is mounted which likewise has a plurality of spaced apart grooves l2 around it. The roller 11 is positioned above the lower runs of the bands or belts 9 and rests thereon, the bands being located in the grooves l2 as shown in Fig. l,

The ,rollers 3 and 4 Yare carried on suitable rafts 13 and roller l0 on a shaft 14. Gearing connections, indicated at 15, connect the shafts 13 so as to Adrive the rollers 3 and 4 in opposite directions as indicated by the arrows. The dough coming to and iilling the die recesses 7 lies over the bands or belts 9. With the continued rotation oi roller 4 in the direction indicated the bands serve to lift the dough which has filled the depressions 7, carrying the same to the roller 11 whereupon the side portions of the cookies, riding upon the larger portions of the roller l1 at each side of the grooves 12, causes a separation of the cookies and the same drop by gravity as separate and distinct cookies 16, falling upon a pan 17 moving beneath the machine in the direction indicated in Fig. 1.

It will be apparent that dough will enter the grooves 8 between the die depressions 7 and hence the cookies will leave the die roller 4 in connected relationship. However, this connection is broken by the operation of my novel roller means 11. The roller l1 is rotated by contact between the belts 9 and the bottom surfaces of the grooves 12 therein and this causes the higher portions of the roller 1l to have a speed which'is considerably 9G greater than the speed of the belts 9 and also v greater than the speed of the cookies 16.

The cookies 16 are carried against the outer surface of the roller i1, see Fig. l, one after the other, and as the edge of the cooky comes against this surface, the increased speed of travel thereof causes the cocky to be drawn downwardly at an increased rate of speed and this causes a clean separation to occur between the belt 9 and the cooky. Also, this temporarily increased rate of travel causes the cocky, which is being acted upon by the roller l1, still referring to Fig. 1, to be pulled to the left and thus separated somewhat from the cocky immediately following the Same- This separating movement causes the small connecting portion of dough between the cookies to be broken and hence the cookies are free to gravitate downwardly in periodic fashion and hence no overlapping will occur. That is, in machines such as that illustrated in the patent granted to Frank Werner, Patent No. 859,999, patented on July 16, 1907, no means is provided for causing the cookies to have an absolutely predetermined point at which their separating movement occurs but its operation is more or less haphazard and consequently considerable overlapping of the cookies is had and such results in waste as is readily understood by those skilled in this art. This waste sometimes runs as high as 10% whereas in my novel construction this is practically entirely eliminated.

Between the rollers 3 and 4 and at the lower sides thereof is a vertical knife 18 the edge of which is in close contact with the rounded cylindrical surface of the die roller 4, this cutting the dough which is fed and squeezed between the two rollers and separating each cooky 16 from the adjacent cookies so that they may be withdrawn from the die recesses 7, as shown in Fig. 1.

The construction described is one of practical and proven merit. The invention is defined in the appended claim and is to be considered comprehensive of all forms of structure coming within its scope.

I claim:

In combination, a die roller, said die roller having a number of rows of die recesses therein around the same, each of said rows having an annular groove around the roller below the bottom of said die recesses and between the sides thereof, means for providing said recesses with dough, means for driving the roller, a band around the die roller, said band seating in the groove, a second roller around which the band passes, and a grooved roller means lcoated adjacent the die roller and immediately above the band for the purpose of causing said portions of dough to leave their respective recesses, said grooves in the roller being of a predetermined depth.

FRANK CHARLES WERNER. 

